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Most of the things Pillow really liked to do were obviously morally wrong. He wasn't an idiot; clearly it was wrong to punch people in the face for money. But there had been an art to it, and it had been thrilling and thoughtful for him. The zoo was also evil, a jail for animals who'd committed no crimes, but he just loved it. The way Pillow figured it, love wasn't about goodness, it wasn't about being right, loving the very best person, or having the most ethical fun. Love was about being alone and making some decisions. Pillow loves animals. Especially the exotic ones.

Graham Marshall looked upon himself as one of the winners in the rat race, comfortable and content, with a secure future. At forty-one, he discovered that a rosy future was a mirage, and he committed his first, almost accidental, murder. At work and at home, his circumstances had begun to look less rosy and he wanted to take revenge on those who had humiliated him

After his wife is murdered, Conrad "Kid Morgan" Browning hunts down the men responsible--then visits his wife's grave in New Mexico. There, he is shocked to discover his ex-fiancée waiting for him--along with armed backup.

When the harassing phone calls and bizarre "gifts" targeting Alison take a violent turn, her detective brother and his sidekick Mitch come to her aid. And as her relentless stalker turns up the heat, she and Mitch find themselves drawn to each other.

Recent Tampa resident Jim Davenport's dreams of tropical paradise are shattered when he kills one of two recently released convicts and must contend with the other.

There's a different schemer or slimeball behind every door: cocaine duckpins who have survived only bt the dumbest fortune, hard-luck gigolos desperate to score, undercover cops busting undercover cops who are running sting operations on undercover cops. And just down the row, local historian and spree killer Serge A.

The moment Marian Larsen sees the patrol car stop outside her house, she feels a shiver of foreboding. The news is even worse than she feared. Marian's husband and young daughter have been in a snowmobile crash. Dan is paralyzed and Laura is dead, her body broken on the icy ground. Friends and colleagues in Marian's Minnesota hometown rally around to try and ease her grief. But soon there are more horrible accidents. Then the rumors start--that there are not coincidences at all, that someone is picking off victims one by one.

A group of characters unites on the Silver Stingray, Amtrak's newest express train, for a murder mystery weekend that is marked by unexpected twists.

Blood Falls finds Joe Clayton feeling safely insulated from the dangers of his past as an undercover cop. But when the peace of an otherwise typical October morning is shattered by an old enemy, Joe must go on the run again. Holing up in the small Cornish town of Trelennan, Joe imagines the community to be a safe haven--but his seemingly idyllic environs prove less than law-abiding.